All posts tagged "Alex Ross Perry"
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Elisabeth Moss Can Do Whatever She Wants
A man cuts through the bustling crew and stands in the center of the room, a bottle of champagne held aloft. “Let’s hear it for our...
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Moviemaker Melee: Joel Potrykus and Nathan Silver Debate the Pros and Cons of Big City and Small Town Moviemaking
Should you live and work in a big city or a small town? Should you stick close to your native geography, or build a new...
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New Film, New Challenge: How Alex Ross Perry Built Intricate Sets, Embraced Collaboration to Make Golden Exits
Each film is about its own challenges. This doesn’t mean logistical hurdles but, rather, the challenge of never repeating yourself, of always staying fresh. Starting...
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Threads of Melancholy: In Ensemble Piece Person to Person, Dustin Guy Defa Proves a Tonal Prowess
With his new ensemble comedy, Person to Person, Dustin Guy Defa seems poised to break through to a wider cultural consciousness outside that of in-the-know...
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Sundance Film Festival: 10 Park City Breakthroughs 2017
Let these 10 faces be your antidote to every name who elbowed his film into the Sundance Film Festival line-up as so-and-so’s nephew. This is...
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Sundance 2017: 66 Feature Films in Competition and NEXT Sections Announced
The Sundance Film Festival today announced 66 feature selections from the Competition (U.S. and World) and NEXT sections of the 2017 edition, which runs January...
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Eye Piece: Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth Wages Stare Wars in Super 16
Wielding old grudges and fierce regrets as sharpened weapons, two women reassess their friendship in Queen of Earth, an intense interior drama from Alex Ross...
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The Marriage of Character and Plot: Alex Ross Perry on Screenwriting
Listen Up Philip‘s writer-director, Alex Ross Perry, investigates the primary symbiosis of the writing process. A movie begins with a single image that I want...
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Park City 2014: Sundance Film Festival Diary, Entry Four
The final entry of Park City correspondent Jeff Meyers’ Sundance Film Festival Diary sees him working hard to squeeze in as many screenings as possible,...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...